My research interests are in Distributed Shared Memories and Distributed
Operating Systems.

I was very active in organizing Indian music concerts at Georgia Tech and was
one of the founding members of the Georgia Tech Spic-Macay chapter.
We
have organized concerts by Pt. Shiv Kumar Sharma, Reena and Rajib
Chakraborty, Sanjeev Abhyankar, Ravikiran, Master Shashank and Rajan and Sajan
Misra in the past as well as many others. I also hold a belt in
Taekwondo.

If you are interested in the country I am from, India, then there are
various comprehensive sources of information available:

The children of India need you -
Child Relief and You
(CRY) is an independent voluntary tax-exempt non-profit relief
organization that shows you the various ways in which you can contribute,
naturally and effortlessly.

For five or so years, I also maintained a survey of travel agents who
give good deals on tickets to the Indian subcontinent. You can peruse both the
text and the
html versions here.

If you are interested in Indian films or popular music, you should read the
RMIM FAQ (HTML
and text)
that I post to Rec.Music.Indian.Misc . There also exists an
RMIM automailer that can get you,
auto-magically, information like the list of songs in a movie, the singers and
other data for any song and lots more. You might also want to see the ITRANS
database of songs and ghazals and other related stuff. To know
more about the ITRANS transliteration scheme, other documents that have been
transliterated, and movie song lyrics, click here .